This weekend, I will be down in Long Beach for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association's Author's Feast and Trade Show.
On Saturday evening, at the Long Beach Hilton, SCIBA is awarding the 2011 SCIBA Book Awards.
The Marbury Lens is one of four finalists in the "Children's Novel" category.
Um.
It is very flattering to have my book on the list of finalists, but a bit unnerving, too.
Just to make certain there was no mix-up, I did a Google search of any other books that came out this past year whose titles rhyme with The Marbury Lens.
Damn.
Some former child actor wrote a picture book about pink chickens called The Strawberry Hens.
I knew it.
Shit.
A couple weeks ago, I got an email from an actual genetically-related cousin of mine.
My cousin said I don't think your book will win an award in the "Children's Novel" category because it has too many f-bombs in it.
I went to a SCIBA Awards dinner a couple years ago, and afterward hung out in the bar with some really great writers to hang out in a bar with.
This year... I am not so sure.
I am worried about the whole "rhyming book" and "too many f-bombs" catastrophe.
You can look for me there.
I will be all alone after the event.
In the bar.
Signing copies of The Strawberry Hens.
13 comments:
Sounds like a great picture book. You'll sign my copy?
:o) Are Shortcake and Little characters in The Strawberry Hens? What a laugh!
Will there be a follow up? The Watermelon Wombats? I smell a series. Clever man.
Are you speaking English?
Poor Lauren. I must say, she's been quite a lady about it. At least in public. I know what I'd be shouting in the privacy of my own home.
Them NBA folks need a better copy editor. Hm.
Someone gets it.
Now I get it. But they don't exactly rhyme. The real books, not your examples. Your examples rhyme most excellently.
It's... it's... Just. Ugh.
I'm happily lost.
Andrew,
You need to let your followers ("All hail Andrew") in on the book-publishing wonder that is Galley Cat (via mediabistro.com).
Marbury Lens rhymes with lots, but the permutations you'll have to worry about next year with Stick boggle.
There's actually a novel called "Stick" already. It's by Elmore Leonard, and it's pretty good, though not his best.
It's nothing like Stick, though.
Yeah, fuck Elmore Leonard, the man's 86 years old. Andrew can take him. Most likely. Although Leonard may have the reach advantage, he looks pretty tall.
I now know.
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